12 Ergebnisse.

Magic breeds misery Augusta fails to hold her family together, despite her magical gift for binding. Her cracked world breaks wide open the day her father decides to declare her vanished mother dead. Retracing the steps her mother took before fleeing promises to heal Augusta . . . or reveal the wrongness at the heart of her magic. Luella loves her home of farms and fields amid swamps-but her magic ensures she finds every lost thing. One too ...

Fate hides Emmi indulges in cleanliness and order as a servant to the magical dancing princesses. The rest of her life? Regular chaos with her growing daughter's wants and needs, her brother sticking his nose into her business, and an impossible attraction to one of the princesses. Heron struggles with conflicting loyalties. As a sibling and citizen of their homeland, they remain loyal to the city of their birth. As a dancing princess, they ...

Fate offers Nefeli dislikes secrets. They lead to mistrust and discontent. Better to face problems straight on, admit weaknesses alongside strengths, and build trust. Only Nefeli's lover and dance partner, Jola, offers a respite from the plots, treacheries, and fears plaguing Nefeli's family, the rulers of Codaros. But her family's troubles threaten to entangle her one more time when Nefeli's mother offers her true power. Jola ranks among ...

Fate Turns Leander loves three things: information, truth, and his sister. For her sake, he clambered down off the palace roofs to take a place as a sub-librarian in the library. He earns their keep in a world of books, papers, and the pursuit of answers to any and all questions. One more successful mission means promotion to full librarian-cementing his and his sister's place on the ground. But at night in his lonely bed, he dreams of a w...

Control the past, control the future Rose soared high. Oldest daughter. Smart. Popular. A born leader ready to remake the world in the name of Truth, Justice, and Equality. Then she fell short and crashed. Dropped out of law school. Lost confidence as the future she always expected slipped out of her hands. Until the day an idle word uncovers a sorcerous plot to control the present and shape the future by changing the past. To stop it, Ros...

Choose or lose! Viola values family and friends above anything else. After suffering abusive bullying in high school, she delights in a tight-knit group of friends at college. Until the night she witnesses them meeting without her. The same night her younger sister calls with news their parents' marriage further disintegrated. Running off into the forest, Viola witnesses sorcery and winds up tangled in a decades-old curse. Lovely and poign...

Restore the spring of life! Losing her beloved father scarred Mara. She held tight to her mother, half-brother, and the unknown grandfather who showed up in the wake of her father's death. He never explained his absence. She never asked, valuing him as a link to her dad. Until her dying grandfather asked her to go on a quest for the conquistador who, centuries earlier, stole the spring of life. She agreed, never guessing that the quest invol...

Fate Dances Gisela serves her village, where the good of the people matters more than any one person's happiness. Unable to contribute to the village in the most primal of ways, she releases her unhappiness by dancing in a fallow field . . . until the ruler of the land notices her latent magic. The least of a large family, Stevan ranks as a solid, reliable scribe. Someone others respect-and forget. Then he meets Gisela, the newest of the D...

Dare to remember! Bea detests snap decisions. Better to take time, examine options, and make informed choices. Order above chaos, always: in life and magic. Her new job in a magical museum suits her to a T. Lead tours through the public displays? Easy peasy. Run mapping sweeps to keep abreast of the ever-changing back rooms? The best kind of adventure. Until she stumbles across an unattended child lost in a long-forgotten forest. Restoring...

Never blackmail a sorcerer Sorcery pays no bills. Fair-weather friends dropped Marta after her divorce-a major no-no in 1950s small town Ohio-some even forbade their children to play with hers. Her ex-husband regularly forgets to pay support. Only her job as a nurse keeps her family clothed and fed-barely. Until the night Bettina, an influential former friend, appears at Marta's kitchen door. Bettina's daughter's shoes mysteriously end up c...

In 1791, a group of elite Bostonian men established the first historical society in the nation. Within sixty years, the number of local history organizations had increased exponentially, with states and territories from Maine to Louisiana and Georgia to Minnesota boasting collections of their own. With in-depth research and an expansive scope, Rescued from Oblivion offers a vital account of the formation of historical culture and consciousness...

In 1791, a group of elite Bostonian men established the first historical society in the nation. Within sixty years, the number of local history organizations had increased exponentially, with states and territories from Maine to Louisiana and Georgia to Minnesota boasting collections of their own. With in-depth research and an expansive scope, Rescued from Oblivion offers a vital account of the formation of historical culture and consciousness...